Network Integration Guide (BC-NET) 

Introduction

The SAP R/3 System is a client/server system. The client/server applications communicate with each other mainly over network connections, so that the quality of the network connection has a very strong influence on the stability and performance of the entire SAP R/3 System.

For this reason, integrating an SAP System into an existing corporate IT infrastructure is a demanding task.

It is particularly important when introducing or expanding an existing SAP R/3 System to begin the necessary planning early.

You need R/3 Basis specialists, and operating system and network specialists for this task. These three areas are often independent of each other.

This document tries to connect these areas and focuses on the following target groups:

Structure of this Document

The Network Integration Guide is divided into the following main subsections:

  1. Introductory information

    2. The section Basics of SAP Communication describes the R/3 architecture and the network requirements that result from it, as well as the different communication connections for an SAP System.

  2. Starting with network planning

The section Planning and Conception describes a general procedure for SAP network planning, and an extensive list of all the important points during the planning. There is also an explanation of network topology in this section.

  1. Comprehensive documentation

This section describes in detail the following topics:
  1. In the appendix, you can find examples of network topologies for small, mid-sized and large SAP Systems.